Allez Parkers! Estate agents prepare for £10,000 charity ride
Group of eight staff and directors from the estate agency are to ride 200 miles in two days between the firm's 17 branches.
A group of estate agents are to emulate the all-conquering cycling champion Tadej Pogačar after announcing their own cycling feat.
While the Tour de France and Tour of Flanders may be more famous, eight road and mountain bike riding agents from a leading regional estate agency are to start their own ‘Tour de Parkers’ during which the group will cycle between the firm’s 17 branches across Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Hampshire and Gloucester in two days covering 200 miles.
The group are hoping to pedal their way to raising £10,000 for Ronald McDonald House, which is based at Oxford Children’s Hospital and opened in April 2020 providing ‘home away from home’ accommodation to families with children having treatment in hospital within its 62-bedroom facilities.
Personal experience
Brendan Kay, MD of Parkers in West Oxfordshire, which is part of the TPFG group, says: “We are proud to once again be fundraising for the Ronald McDonald House in Oxford.
“Both myself and Lisa Kay and our colleague Simon Gregory have personal experiences of the Ronald McDonald House and know first-hand just how important it can be to families like ours.
“The eight of us are all busy training for the challenge and look forward to raising as much money as we can, enabling the charity to continue providing other families with the same level of care and support that our family and Simon’s received.”
The riders in the group (main picture, LtoR) are: Lisa Kay, Brenday Kay, Simon Gregory, Theo Smith, Ash Howes and Morgan Jones. Those not pictured but who will cycling too include Jayson Wicks and TPFG group director Toby Phillips.
Chloe Hodgson, a Community Fundraiser for Ronald McDonald House in Oxford, said: “The support of our corporate partners like Parkers, who we have built a strong relationship with over several years, is so important, especially at a time when fundraising is so challenging due to the cost-of-living crisis.
This will be the second Tour de Parkers with a similar event seven years ago raising just under £6,000 for the same charity.
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